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Ericsson’s 5G Network To Increase Safety & Sustainability

  • Trade represented more than 60 percent of the global gross domestic product.
  • Connected ports: A guide to make ports smarter with private cellular technology, outlines how challenges of equipment downtime, congested port yards for loading and unloading, worker safety, and environmental impact could be resolved with private cellular networks.
  • Ericsson collaborated with leading sensor technology provider, ifm electronic, as well as researchers from management consultancy Arthur D.
  • By year five,...

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Marine industries’ contribution to US economy swells

The United States’ marine economy contributed about $373 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product in 2018 and grew faster than the nation’s economy as a whole, according to statistics released Tuesday.

The statistics come from research conducted by two U.S. Department of Commerce agencies — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) — on 10 sectors representing businesses dependent on the nation’s oceans, coasts and Great Lakes...

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Today’s Pickup: Ford reopens two facilities, twice in the same week over COVID-19 scare

Ford reopens two facilities, twice in the same week over COVID-19 scare (Photo: Ford Motor Company)

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Ford facilities at Dearborn and Chicago have reopened after closing earlier this week due to a few employees testing positive for COVID-19 on-site. The company said in its statement that the work areas, equipment, team areas, and the pathways were ‘deep-cleaned and disinfected.’

The erratic closing and opening of manufacturing and logistics facilities show the difficulty of running operations that require hundreds of personnel to work in close proximity to each other. As the virus...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/todays-pickup-ford-reopens-two-facilities-twice-in-the-same-week-over-covid-19-scare